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To: "dreamwvr" <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>,
From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell@home.com>
Subject: Re: Javascript - just say no(t required)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:24:29 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "dreamwvr" <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc: "Gunther Birznieks" <gunther@extropia.com>; <modperl@apache.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Javascript - just say no(t required)
> hi,
> Seems to me the only reasonable usage for cookies that does not
> seem to be abuse.org is as a temporary ticket granting system.. so
> the next time you want to get a byte you need a ticket to goto the
> smorg..
I think it is also very reasonable to store user-selected preferences
in cookies, especially for things likes sizes, colors, fonts for
certain pages. Why should the server side have to store millions
of things like that? Even if it does, the choices may be different
for the same user running a different browser. Normally you
would have some default that would work for the cookie-challenged
folks anyway.
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@home.com
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To: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell@home.com>
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Javascript - just say no(t required)
Date: 05 Jan 2001 23:18:27 -0800
>>>>> "Les" == Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@home.com> writes:
Les> I think it is also very reasonable to store user-selected preferences
Les> in cookies, especially for things likes sizes, colors, fonts for
Les> certain pages. Why should the server side have to store millions
Les> of things like that? Even if it does, the choices may be different
Les> for the same user running a different browser. Normally you
Les> would have some default that would work for the cookie-challenged
Les> folks anyway.
Please remember that the cookie space is spec'ed to be limited. So
your cookie may get pushed out for others. So there'd better be a way
to trivially reload all that stuff, or your customers will be angry.
Might as well be nice, store the info server side, and treat it
like a login.
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